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I got the impression he wasn't talking about Tinker-man/Rafa-style rotation for the sake of it, he was saying different players will suit different matches. For example Blackburn away will require a different set of tactics than Wolves home - there may even be some play in the midfield this week.

Also last year we played people who were clearly fucked, due to our lack of options - SWP, Robson, Ireland, Zabba, Kompany to name a few.

Now if the likes of Bellamy has a sore knee he can rest it because we have quality stand-ins. Give everyone time to recover from knocks and injuries.

And everyone should be fighting for a place. We had some on here who didn't want to buy players 'because it will upset so-and-so'. What a load of shite!

Re - rotation

Players will have their opinions. But the role of the manager is important here.

He doesn't need to be mates with everyone but he is as much a a part of the team as anyone playing and they need to know where they stand.

The problems always seem to start when the rotation doesn't include a particular player and he doesn't get to talk from the manager about it.

That seems to have been the issue Tevez had with "Danish".